Battery: Offensive Contact

…States , 260 U. S. 327. In that case the petition alleged that the United States erected a fort on nearby land, established a battery and a fire control station there, and fired guns over petitioner’s land. The Court, speaking through Mr. Justice Holmes, reversed the Court of Claims, which dismissed the petition on a…

…but naturally following from a defective construction.” In that case the injuries were inflicted by the explosion of a battery of steam-driven coffee urns, constituting an appliance liable to become dangerous in the course of ordinary usage. The case of Devlin v. Smith (89 N. Y. 470) is cited as an authority in…

…knowledge of the constitutional limitations on libel law at the time it filed its pleadings below because of its "interlocking battery of able and distinguished attorneys" some of whom were involved in the New York Times litigation. This holding rendered the compensatory damage decision purely one of state law and no…

…thought to be inadequate, had exercised an extraordinary measure of control over the verdict of the jury in cases of mayhem and battery; and that the practice of denying a new trial upon a remittitur had received some recognition in the English courts. Belt v. Lawes, supra , 359; Watt v. Watt , [1905] A. C. 115, 122. But…